"Sir, the Jin army has retreated." The defenders on the wall of Guizhou said to the prefect when they saw that the Jin army retreated.

"Don't be careless, this may be a trick of the Jin Army."

The prefect of Guizhou saw the Jin army withdrawing, but he did not believe that the Jin army would withdraw so easily. After all, they had attacked so fiercely just now, and now that their purpose had not been achieved, how could they leave so easily.

Therefore, he thought this was a trick by the Jin army, trying to lure them into sending troops and then attack them.

About ten minutes later, a soldier ran up from below the city tower and said to the prefect: "Sir, the prefect of Shunzhou has sent guard Wang Zuo and 10,000 cavalry to come for reinforcements. They have arrived outside the south city gate and asked for permission to let them enter the city.

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"Can you confirm that it is indeed Wang Shoujiang?" the prefect asked.

The soldier said: "Zhang Tuanlian has confirmed that it is General Wang."

The prefect was still a little uneasy because the Jin Army had just retreated, so he was very worried that it belonged to the Jin Army's Qiao Zhuang, so he rushed to the south city wall to identify it in person, because General Wang also came with them.

, so we all know each other.

After identifying that it was indeed Shou General Wang, the prefect had the city gates opened to allow them to enter the city. After meeting with Shou General Wang, both parties introduced the situation to each other.

"As long as the Jin army retreats, I can go back and report to our magistrate with peace of mind," said General Wang.

The prefect of Guizhou said: "It is still not certain that the Jin army has really retreated. After all, they attacked so fiercely before and looked like they were bound to win. Now they have not even entered the city, how could they retreat so easily.

Therefore, I suspect that this is a trick on their part to make us become careless and then seize the opportunity to seize the city."

General Wang nodded slightly and said, "Your concern is not unreasonable. Let's wait here for a while to confirm that the Jin army has really retreated, and then we can go back."

"Then there is General Lao Wang."

The prefect immediately asked his men to take the soldiers brought by General Wang to rest, and then sent thirty detective horses out to find out about the Jin army. He himself accompanied General Wang to the government office.

About half an hour later, the prefect was accompanying General Wang to talk in the government office. Suddenly a soldier came over and said, "Sir, Master Youzhou Hua has sent General Gao Zhan to lead an army to come for reinforcements. They have already arrived.

Outside the south gate."

When the prefect heard that Gao Zhan was coming with his troops, he immediately came to the south city gate with General Wang, ordered the soldiers to open the gate, and personally came to Gao Zhan's horse outside the city. He clasped his hands and saluted him and said, "See you, official."

Too high general."

Because the distance between Guizhou and Youzhou is much closer than Tanzhou and Jizhou, Gao Zhan and others arrived first than other armies rushing to support them.

Gao Zhan led the generals to get off their horses, returned the salute to the prefect with clasped fists, and said: "Your Excellency knew that Guizhou was attacked by the Jin army in Youzhou, so he specially sent me, Commander Gu, and Commander Jie to come to the rescue.

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"Thank you, Mr. Hua, and thank you generals," the prefect said.

Gao Zhan looked around the city gate. Because the prefect was worried about the Jin Army's fraud, he had not sent anyone to clean up the corpses left by the Jin Army when they attacked the city. The corpses of the Jin Army were still lying under the city wall.

"Sir, where is the Jin army that attacked Guizhou?" Gao Zhan asked.

The prefect told the story about the Jin army's failure to attack and the withdrawal of troops. Gao Zhan frowned when he heard that Jin Junran used gunpowder sticks, because he had seen the power of the gunpowder sticks with his own eyes. The two armies faced off against each other.

The powerful lethality at that time had completely subverted his previous fighting philosophy.

You must know that when he led his troops to fight in the past, he always kept in mind the combat philosophy inherited from his fathers, that is, the general must be fierce, the soldiers must be brave, and then coupled with the art of war, they can be invincible.

However, since seeing the power of gunpowder sticks, swarms of bees, poisonous gentians, and fire systems with my own eyes, my previous combat thinking and concepts have been completely overturned. When encountering an enemy, the first thing that comes to mind is no longer to challenge the enemy general in a duel, let alone to let the soldiers go up.

Instead of fighting bravely with the enemy generals, they wanted to use gunpowder sticks to first destroy the enemy's soldiers in number and spiritual will, and then the crossbowmen, archers, and sword and shield soldiers would cooperate with each other to clear them out.

Management battlefield.

This will not only kill a large number of enemy troops, but also minimize the loss of personnel on your own side.

Not only him, it can be said that after seeing the power of gunpowder, the combat thinking of all the generals under Hua Ju have changed, especially the last time they dealt with Wanyanxiong and encircled and attacked the Liao army in Ji, Tan, Wu, Ru and other states.

After that, everyone highly praised the power of gunpowder. Even Lu Zhishen, who was always known for his strength and reckless character, and Wu Song, who was cold and arrogant and had great martial arts skills, were deeply in awe of gunpowder.

It was precisely because of the huge power of gunpowder that Gao Zhan and others were confident in fighting the Jin army in the future and destroying the Jin country.

But now the Jin Army is also using gunpowder sticks. In this way, their advantage will be greatly reduced when fighting the Jin Army, and the casualties will increase accordingly.

Therefore, Gao Zhan feels that this situation is very serious.

"How did the Jin army know how to use gunpowder sticks?" Gao Zhan asked.

"This subordinate doesn't know."

The prefect shook his head slightly, and then said: "By the way, some of the gunpowder sticks they shot up just now did not explode. The general wants to take a look."

In order to complete the order given by Wan Yanmin to rush to make large quantities of gunpowder sticks to deal with the Song army, Prime Minister Zuo of the Jin Kingdom gathered all the people who made the firecrackers, but there was still not enough manpower, so he recruited many five people from the common people.

More than 10 people who are not the main labor force come to help.

The reason why non-main labor force is used is mainly because the strong labor force will be used in other important places, so those who use these non-main labor force will not occupy human resources.

However, these people did not receive professional training. They just asked people who knew how to make firecrackers to teach them the production process twice on site, and then started to make them. In addition, the boss was very urgent, so it was inevitable that there would be problems during the production.

Some defective products caused some of the dynamite sticks they shot onto the city wall to fail to explode.

When Gao Zhan heard that there were samples to look at, he hurriedly said, "Hurry up and show them to me."

The prefect sent someone to bring the unexploded gunpowder sticks to Gao Zhan. Gao Zhan took them and looked at them carefully. The Jin Army's gunpowder sticks were slightly larger than theirs, but they were still within a reasonable range.

Inside, it’s not ridiculously big.

Because if the size of the gunpowder stick is too large, the center of gravity of the arrow will be increased, which will reduce the range of the arrow by half or even cause it to fall halfway, and the accuracy will also be reduced, defeating the purpose of delivery.

Therefore, the size of the gunpowder stick should not be too large.

However, although the Jin Dynasty's gunpowder sticks were larger than those of the Song Army, their workmanship was obviously inferior to theirs.

"Master Prefect, please give me these gunpowder sticks. I will take them to our Lord and let him study these sticks carefully." Gao Zhan said to the prefect.

The prefect asked the soldiers to hand all the gunpowder sticks to Gao Zhan, and Gao Zhan asked the soldiers to put away the gunpowder sticks.

"Mr. Prefect, since General Gao and the others are here, I will go back and report back to our Lord Prefect." General Wang Shou said to the prefect.

The magistrate of Guizhou clasped his fists and said, "When I get back, I will say thank you to Magistrate Feng. I will remember his kindness and will definitely repay him if I have the opportunity in the future."

General Wang Shou said: "In this humble position, I will definitely take your Lord's words to heart."

Then General Wang Shou saluted Gao Zhan and others and left with 10,000 cavalry.

"Generals, please go into the city and sit down in the government office to have a rest." The prefect said to Gao Zhan and others.

Gao Zhan turned around and looked at it, and said to Yunzong: "General Yunzhong, take these gunpowder sticks and rush back to Youzhou immediately to hand them over to the Lord, and explain the situation here clearly to him."

"As commanded."

Yunzong took the gunpowder sticks and rushed towards Youzhou with more than twenty soldiers.

While Gao Zhan and the others were resting in the city, Hua Rong and Qin Ming also led their troops to Tanzhou. Because Tanzhou was far away from Youzhou, they arrived later than Gao Zhan and the others.

Because the Jin army had withdrawn from Tanzhou, the prefect went out of the city to welcome them into the city. Then he introduced them to the battle with the Jin army and collected the soldiers.

The Jin army shot the gunpowder sticks that did not explode on the city wall and gave them to Hua Rong, while Qin Ming watched.

Hua Rong and Qin Ming took a closer look at the gunpowder sticks and felt that the situation was a bit serious, so they immediately sent someone to send the gunpowder sticks back to Youzhou.

Half an hour later.

Six generals, including Guan Sheng, Yuan Lang, and Teng Kan, who rushed to reinforce Jizhou, and Hu Yanzhuo, Si Xingfang, and Li Tianrun, who rushed to reinforce Ruzhou, led their troops to the two states almost at the same time. However, when they arrived, the Jin army also retreated because the Jin army

In Jizhou, the attack on Ruzhou did not go well either. Three or four thousand people died but failed to capture the city. In the end, they were worried that reinforcements from the Song Army would arrive and annihilate them all, so they had to withdraw with their troops.

When the magistrates of Ruzhou and Jizhou saw Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng arriving with their troops, they immediately led their troops outside the city to welcome them into the city, and then briefed them on the Jin army's attack on the city.

Similarly, when Hu Yanzhuo and Guan Sheng heard that the Jin army was attacking with gunpowder sticks, they also realized that the situation was serious, and immediately sent people back to Youzhou to report to Hua Ju.

Wuzhou.

Among the five state cities attacked by the Jin army, this place is the farthest from Youzhou. The last time the Liao army led its troops to attack, it suffered heavy losses and casualties.

Therefore, when the Jin army attacked again this time, it was no longer tens of thousands of defenders defending the city, but the entire city's common people, including those from the Khitan.

Because even though the Liao army killed many Han people when they invaded Wuzhou last time, after the incident, the Han people and the government did not treat the Khitan people differently. This made them very touched.

The Song Dynasty implemented the New Deal, and the Khitan people also enjoyed the dividends of the New Deal, and their lives were better than before when the Liao Kingdom ruled.

Therefore, now they are also willing to accept the rule of the Song Dynasty. Many Khitan people even gave themselves and their children Han names.

Therefore, when they heard that the Jin Army was coming to attack Wuzhou City again, they also joined the ranks of defending Wuzhou.

"Someone is injured here again. Treat them quickly." Several soldiers came down from the city wall with the injured guards and shouted to the people and doctors below who were rescuing the wounded.

The Jin army who attacked Wuzhou also used a large number of gunpowder sticks, but the soldiers defending the city stubbornly stood on the city wall in order to prevent the Jin army from breaking in. Therefore, many people were injured, and once someone

If they are injured, other soldiers will carry them down for treatment, because the entire military

The doctors of the state city are all scattered behind the east, south, west and north gates. Once any soldiers are injured, they can be treated immediately. So up to now, except for a small number of soldiers who have died due to serious injuries, all the rest of the injured soldiers have been injured.
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